THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Monday, June 24, 1996 TAG: 9606210033
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A8 EDITION: FINAL
LENGTH: 56 lines
The Tidewater Builders Association recently sought to loosen the Chesapeake sign-ordinance restrictions on promotional flags, banners and bunting, the better to sell homes.
Fortunately for residents, City Council stood firm against flutter clutter, if we can call a 5-4 vote firm.
Councilman Alan P. Krasnoff made absolute sense when he said, ``We are the eighth fastest-growing city in the country. I don't believe there's a problem selling lots in this city.''
Imagine a city without sign ordinances. Such a city would give new meaning to the word ``ugly.'' What's more, with red and green banners flapping and signs everywhere competing for attention, drivers' eyes would be drawn too often from the road. Battlefield Boulevard is deadly enough with drivers watching where they're going. You gotta love Doumars
Visiting relatives love Doumars, the old-time ice-cream and barbecue drive-in in Norfolk. Leastways that's always our experience.
To see the original ice-cream-cone machine, invented by Abraham Doumar, is to have something to brag about when they get back home.
The Missouri Historical Society in St. Louis began displaying one of Abraham Doumar's first cone machines yesterday, along with other items from the 1904 World's Fair there. The display will last five years, after which the machine may find a permanent home at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C.
Don't worry. Another of the machines remains at Doumars. Visitors can still watch the cones being made, and better . . . taste them fresh and warm. He gives to the rich
A retired Richmond postal worker named Thomas Cannon recently gave two multimillionaires checks for a $1,000 each.
The recipients were William H. Goodwin and Beverley W. Armstrong, who sold AMF Bowling for a reported $1 billion and gave 4,000 employees bonuses averaging $12,500 and totaling $50 million.
Cannon, 70, who has dispensed $85,000 worth of unsolicited donations over the past 21 years, wrote to the Richmond Times-Dispatch: ``I am well aware that these two gentlemen are multimillionaires and therefore have no need, probably no desire, for my checks. Nevertheless, I felt the need to let them know how I felt about their generosity toward their employees.'' Cannon also said, ``Billionaires and millionaires are also `humanaires.'. . . They are humans first.''
The checks originally went to the Times-Dispatch, for delivery to Armstrong and Goodwin. Armstrong wrote the paper asking that the checks either be returned to Cannon or donated to the Glorious Church of God in Christ of Richmond, which was intentionally burned in February. Giving the money to the church congregation sounds good to us.
At least one other time, Cannon sent a millonaire $1,000. That was back in 1976, when $1,000 was real money. It's an odd form of charity. by CNB